When he de­cides to help an illegal refugee, he must en­gage the sup­port of his friends and ig­ure out a way to elude a very dogged po­lice in­spec­tor ( Jean- Pierre Dar­roussin).

This fairy tail from the Fin­nish di­rec­tor doesn’t ooze irony like his other movies, but it ex­pertly evokes its tit­u­lar lo­ca­tion and has many quiet plea­sures, chief among them its deft per­for­mances.